17.1 About Modula-2

Modula-2 is a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in
Zurich, Switzerland in the late 70's. Wirth also developed Algol-W, Pascal,
Modula, and Oberon.

Modula-2 corrects some of the deficiencies of Pascal. It is suitable for
learning programming, for large projects written and maintained in the
fashion of professional software engineers, and for real time embedded
systems. Modula-2 is small, expressive, easy to learn and to read.